Today’s great VC post is by Greg Gottesman (a managing director at Madrona Venture Group) and is titled Thirteen key characteristics of a great startup culture. It shows up in John Cook’s column in TechFlash – the article is solid and the comments (all 66 of them at this point) are priceless. I’m baffled by […]
Q: At a pub in Los Gatos, CA a casual conversation with some young, first time entrepreneurs lead to an interesting comment: "…the business plan outlines our estimated (operational) expenses but how do I know an investor is not going to look at these numbers and say…’are you f’ing kidding me’ and right then and […]
The 2009 New York Venture Summit is happening on June 17th at Digital Sandbox in New York City. The summit will feature 50 early stage and emerging growth companies as presenters, interactive panel discussions and lots of networking. The agenda looks strong as does the speaker list. The cost for investors or entrepreneurs is only […]
Furqan Nazeeri put up a post titled 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens. It in he points to a compensation study produced by J. Robert Scott, Ernst & Young, and WilmerHale in collaboration with Dr. Noam Wasserman, Professor at the Harvard Business School. CompStudy covers more than 25,000 executives at 5,000 companies and is the […]
Q: Can you please address the issue of estimating Addressable Market when the product or service is trying to solve an emerging problem and opportunity that is about to hit in the near future. For example, FeedBurner raised money long before bloggers were convinced that feed management could use some professional help and long before […]
Question: You often hear to leave out the possible exit scenario when you pitch. Brad states that its because its usually wrong. I suspect most VC’s discuss likely exits with their partners before making an investment, what percent of the time do you guys generally "guess" the exit on the front side of the investment? […]
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